Sustainability Pioneers Community Conversations COURSE SYLLABUS

Climate change is a challenging topic to face. Yet, an inspiring and empowering reality is emerging as a response to climate change. In this interactive class, participants will learn about sustainability, energy, climate science and climate solutions through presentations by Rachel Carson scholar Patricia DeMarco. Documentary filmmaker Kirsi Jansa will screen her Sustainability Pioneers short documentaries showcasing communities and states taking bold climate action. The five week course will empower participants to have constructive conversations about global warming and make changes for a sustainable future.

Kirsi Jansa and Patricia DeMarco developed and have been running this course at the OSHER Lifelong Learning Institutes at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, and at the Frick Environmental Center. To learn about new Sustainability Pioneers Community Conversations courses, sign up to our newsletter (on the Connect page) and/or follow us on the Sustainability Pioneers Facebook page.

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Session #3. Federal, state and local jurisdiction over energy – how the system works

Patricia DeMarco: Federal, state and local jurisdiction over energy – how the system works

Kirsi Jansa: The Secret to Talking about Climate Change

Screening: Sustainability Pioneers episodes From Paris to New York and Going Fossil Free

SP Community Conversation

ACTION IDEAS

Individual climate action: Reduce your carbon emissions: Eat less meat, especially beef, and more locally produced vegetarian food. “Eating all locally grown food for one year could save the GHG equivalent of driving 1,000 miles, while eating a vegetarian meal one day a week could save the equivalent of driving 1,160 miles.”

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Project Drawdown – a nonprofit organization and coalition of scholars, scientists, entrepreneurs, and advocates from across the globe that is mapping, measuring, modeling, and communicating about a collective array of substantive solutions to global warming, with the goal of reaching drawdown.